It has been heaping up for years in Chancery, and all that sort of thing, you know," he added, vaguely.

"My people thought I might meet him out here, don't you know--and he could go home and get all the cash, you see.

They've been advertising for him." "And what good will it do you," drawled Gordon, "supposing you do find him?
Where do you come in ?" "Oh, it doesn't do me much good, except that if there is such a Johnny, and he dies without making a will, then the money would all come to my people.

But if there isn't, it all goes to another branch of the family." Gordon thought the matter over for a while.

"What you want," he said, "is to find this man, and to find him dead.